MIT is a widely used permissive free software license that is compatible with the GPLv2 license. This change adds it to the list of compatible licenses with GPLv2 in the kernel documentation.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <[email protected]> --- Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst index 25ca49f7a..c3465e3aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst @@ -235,9 +235,9 @@ code must be compatible with version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), which is the license covering the kernel distribution as a whole. In practice, that means that all code contributions are covered either by GPLv2 (with, optionally, language allowing distribution under later -versions of the GPL) or the three-clause BSD license. Any contributions -which are not covered by a compatible license will not be accepted into the -kernel. +versions of the GPL), the three-clause BSD license or the MIT license. +Any contributions which are not covered by a compatible license will not +be accepted into the kernel. Copyright assignments are not required (or requested) for code contributed to the kernel. All code merged into the mainline kernel retains its -- 2.50.1
